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Sriram Sridharan
Sriram Sridharan

Reputation: 740

Jenkins - Trigger Selenium test after deployment

I'm new to Jenkins, so please go easy!

I have a web application which we are developing, and we've started automating our release using Jenkins.

I also have a standalone Selenium WebDriver script which will perform a Smoke test on our web app. We usually run this manually each time there's a new deployment.

I heard Jenkins can automatically trigger Selenium tests. So what I did was to create a batch file, which will in turn call the Selenium script. I added a Build Step which will call this batch file.

What's happening now is Jenkins first Builds the WAR file, executes the batch (for selenium) and then deploys it to the target Tomcat.

But I was wondering if I could change the order to Build WAR --> Deploy to Tomcat --> Call the Batch file that executes Selenium Test. I want to do this as Jenkins Tests before deploying, which means my Selenium test still runs on the old build. This makes little sense, as I would rather run the Selenium test on the new build.

In short, is there a way I can execute the Batch file as part of a Post Build Step rather than a Build Step?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2462

Answers (1)

Sriram Sridharan
Sriram Sridharan

Reputation: 740

Thank you Würgspaß !!

I solved my problem by creating a separate Selenium Job which gets triggered automatically if my Build is successful. This way, I can create any number of downstream jobs to be triggered for a successful build.

Upvotes: 0

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